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537 



' To chaffer for preferments with his 

 gold.' — Urydtn. 



' Ciiiirteiy, that is buying a»d felling.' 

 • — Spenfcr. 



I'he after-ladns had excambiare, whence 

 tJie French made cchangei; and we to 

 rxcliange : it means to give one thing ibr 

 anotlicr. Commodities are exchanged 

 for coniiuodities. Wares are excliani^cd 

 for money. Money is exchanged tor 

 money. Technically, a bill of exchange 

 is a payment for money received in one 

 place by a draught on another : fo that 

 the permutation of different currencies 

 conftitutes the efpecial bulinels of the 

 eNchanger. 



* While bullion may be had for a fmall 

 price more than the weight of om* cur- 

 rent calh, tliefe exchangers generally 

 choofe rather to buy bullion than run 

 the rilk, of melting down our coin.' — 

 Lxkc. 



From Conftantinople to Barcelona, 

 from Barcelona to Geuova travelled many 

 technical words of commerce, which 

 were known in the antienl and refumed 

 iu tiie modern world. Of this clafs pro- 

 bably is to ii-ttck, which we talie from 

 the trucco of the Spaniards, ami which 

 they take from tire rfcoynn of tlic Greeks. 

 To exchange goods with a view to profit, 

 is to truck. 



Go, mifer, go; for lucre fell thy foul ; 

 Truck wares for wares, anJ trudge from pole 

 to pole. Dryden, 



' I will not excb.ange even-haaded ; 

 but, to make an end of chaft'ering, 1 will 

 truck with yon the bale of calicoes for 

 the hogfliead of fugai-, if you will throw 

 off ten per cent, for barter.' 



For the Monthly Magazine. 

 jouRXAL of a vov.vcE performed in the 



INDIAN SEAS, to MADRAS, BENGAL, 



CHINA, S)C., SfC, in Tiis MAjr sty's 

 SHIP CAUOLiNr., ill ^AevEARS 1803- J-5, 

 interfptrfed zci'h Jliort df.scrii'TIve 

 SKETCHES of the present state of the 

 principal stixi.EMENTS of the indi.\ 



CO.MPANY. 



Communicated to the iMONthly magazine 

 b>/ an OFi-iCER (if that ship. 



IT is at Garden Reach, that the. moll 

 (Iriking and beautiful profpett pre- 

 fents itfi If to the view ; the banks of the 

 river (which is hero about tv.-ice the 

 breadth of the Thames at i.ondon), arc 

 lovcred with a verdant csupet to the 

 ivCite^'i cd^e, ixud decorated v/ith numer- 



ous elegant villas, or rather palaces, each 

 furrounded with groves and lawns, form- 

 ing a fucceflioii of very interellmg ob- 

 jects to the llranger, while lileutly glidiug 

 pull them. 



The river itfelf, too, claims no fmall 

 fliare of his attention : from lliips of a 

 thoufand tons, fraught with commerce, 

 down to tiie llender fnake-tjoat, that 

 feems to ily along the furlace of the wa- 

 ter, the eye wanders with a mixture of 

 plcafure and furprize, over the various 

 intermediate links : the elegant budge- 

 rows and pleafure boats, conveying whole 

 families of Europeans to and from their 

 country feats, cantralling finely with the 

 rude and curioully conftrutted velfels of 

 the natives : forming, altogether, afuene 

 the moll piCturefque and engaging timt 

 can be imagined ! and in the contem- 

 plation of which the llranger is generally 

 fo much abforbed, that he does not per- 

 ceive the lapfe of time, until he is unex- 

 pectedly roufed by tiie fight of Fort Wil- 

 liam, and a little farther on the city of 

 Calcutta itfelf 



The furt is fituated on the eaftem 

 bank, about a quarter of a mile from the 

 town, and makes a very good appeui- 

 ance from the river ; it is an extcnhve 

 and llrong f jrtrefs, laid out in fquaros 

 and regular buildings, interfperlied with 

 groves ot' trees, that afford a comlorta- 

 ble Ihclter from the noontide heat, and 

 exlubiting inlide a great iikeneis to a 

 pleafaiit wing of a city. 



Between this and the town a level 

 fpace intervenes, called the El'planade, 

 v.hich is crowded evenings and mornings 

 with all ranks and delcriptions of people, 

 who refort there for air, exercilis, or con- 

 verfation. 



The govel-nment-houfe, and Charinga 

 road, (a line of detached builrlings tlvat 

 bound the efplanade on one lide,) cut a 

 very interefting figure from this part of 

 the river. 



The European part of the town lies 

 next the fort, and the lioufes are here 

 ii;iuch more elegant than at Madras (the 

 garden-houfes excepted). The reaion of 

 this is very evident : at Fort St. George 

 they are only uled as offices, or ware- 

 houfes, tlie gentlemen invariably retiring 

 to the garden-houfes in the evening ; 

 whereas, at Calcutta, inoll of the mer- 

 chants have their otiices attached to their 

 dvvelling-houfes, and of cmirfe both are 

 kept in good order. For though the chu- 

 nam, when kept clean and entire, rivals 

 the Farian marble iticlf; yet when it 



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